Macromedia flash, might be in wrong place sorry!

OK so I'm going to make a website with a friend tomorrow night, it's gonna be great!
But I want to really work hard on this one and make it look amazing, I'm going to try out Dreamweaver instead of Frontpage and want to try Flash MX to make an intro. I want to bring up images and then fade them out and have some background music, used Audacity already to create it.
How do I go about setting up background music and having images fade in and out and then create like an "enter" button which will take you to the website?
If there's a site out there that gives you all this I'd be really interested to know, or what programming I need to know!

 

Motion tweens are your friend!

Read some stuff on basic flash, so you know what I'm talking about.

Just import the images into the library, crate a keyframe, insert the image and make it a graphic symbol, then create another keyframe a few frames later (lets say 90, for a 3 second fade at 30FPS), and set the alpha of the image to be 0.

Thats how you make an image fade out. To make it fade in, do the reverse (make a keyframe, set alpha to 0, then make another keyframe and set alpha to 100)! To crossfade, simply have one image fade in as the other fades out.

An enter button is easy. Read up about button symbols and all will become clear

But please, oh please, put a skip intro button. Personally I'd rather there wasn't an intro at all, i hate the darned things... they just seem a bit melodramatic and pointless to me. But I'm not designing this thing

 

I second that.

 

cheers, there will be a skip intro i know what you mean, but just want to make this site good!

 

Don't know if they fixed this in Flash MX but a quick tip if you want to fade text in and out is to set the alpha at 99% rather than 100% for full visibility. At 100% the look of the font changes (in earlier versions anyway) and you don't get a smooth fade.